Disease outbreaks strike flooded Philippine villages

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Updated November 11, 2009 21:03:57

Five weeks after Typhoon Ketsana, and having weathered two more typhoons since then, tens of thousands of Filippinos are still living in flooded villages and towns. The storms themselves affected nearly a million people and caused around 1,100 deaths. Now the World Health Organisation says it is battling severe disease outbreaks, including the bacterial illness leptospirosis.

Presenter: Corinne Podger
Speaker: Dr Peter Cordingley, spokesman, World Health Organisation, Manila, Philippines

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